Live-action performances meet a digitally built future Amsterdam in this 2012 science-fiction short from the Blender Foundation.
In Ian Hubert’s 2012 short Tears of Steel, scientists and fighters gather in a future Amsterdam to restage an event from the past. They hope it will help them stop the robots threatening the city. The film runs 12 minutes and 14 seconds, including its original credits.
The Blender Foundation made the short to develop tools for putting live actors into computer-generated environments. Its production archive goes beyond the finished film. It includes footage and project files, so you can start with a shot and work backward to see how it was put together. The foundation released the film under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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